Ignore anybody demanding e-registration price, LP warns members

The interim Nationwide Chairman of the Labour Party, Senator Nenadi Usman, on Monday, warned members and supporters to disregard people demanding fee for the celebration’s ongoing digital membership registration, insisting that the train is totally free.

The management issued the warning throughout the official unveiling of the celebration’s e-registration portal in Abuja, the place stakeholders from the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Commerce Union Congress had been additionally current.

Addressing journalists on the occasion, Usman stated the registration train was designed to simplify membership documentation and put together the celebration for its upcoming congresses and nationwide conference.

She stated, “I can attest to the truth that you didn’t have to pay anybody to do that registration. So, Nigerians should not being requested to pay cash to do that registration. So anyone who says that on-line wherever might be a thief, if I ought to use that phrase.

“Nevertheless, there’s a web page there the place if you’ll want to pay your dues as a member of the Labour Party, you click on a hyperlink on the web page, and it takes you to the place you pay your dues. However you aren’t required to pay a dime to do that registration to turn into a member of a degree celebration. It’s completely freed from cost,” she stated.

The event comes because the celebration continues efforts to rebuild and reorganise its buildings nationwide following inside management disputes which have trailed the celebration because the 2023 basic elections.

Explaining the aim of the e-registration train, the interim nationwide chairman stated the initiative would lay the muse for a clear membership register that can information the celebration’s forthcoming inside elections.

Based on her, the method will culminate in congresses on the ward, state and zonal ranges earlier than the celebration holds a nationwide conference to elect members of its Nationwide Working Committee.

Usman additionally dismissed recommendations that the celebration was distracted by criticism or inside disagreements, saying the management was targeted on strengthening the celebration’s buildings forward of future political contests.

“To start with, everyone is entitled to their opinion, however for us as a Labour Party, we aren’t going to waste time in arguing about who’s saying what or doing what.

“We’re simply going to face the difficulty of the day, which is e-registration, and we’ll get it accomplished. It is a celebration that stands for social justice. It’s a celebration that stands for equal alternatives. Due to that, virtually each Nigerian employee believes within the Labour Party and is prepared to register.

“I guarantee you that what is going to take different political events three weeks to do wouldn’t take us greater than per week, and we will likely be prepared,” she stated.

Earlier, a veteran commerce unionist and member of the celebration’s Board of Trustees, Lawson Osagie, dismissed claims of factionalisation throughout the Labour Party, sustaining that the celebration’s organs had been working in step with the Supreme Courtroom judgment and the rules of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee.

Based on him, the celebration’s Nationwide Caretaker Committee has been mandated to oversee the method resulting in congresses and a nationwide conference that can usher in a brand new substantive management.

He additionally emphasised that the caretaker management was dedicated to producing a reputable and verifiable membership register that may information the celebration’s inside democratic course of.

“We don’t have any issues within the Labour Party in any of our states. The Supreme Courtroom judgment made it clear that the tenure of the earlier management had expired. One of many key tasks of the interim management is to conduct congresses and a nationwide conference,” Osagie stated.